Bill Knott (1) (1940–2014)

Author of I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014

For other authors named Bill Knott, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Bill Knott was born in Carson City, Michigan. The author of ten previous volumes of poetry, including The Naomi Poems and Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems, 1969-1999, he is also a book artist whose handmade, one-of-a-kind volumes are prized by collectors. He teaches at Emerson show more College show less

Works by Bill Knott

The Unsubscriber: Poems (2004) 41 copies

The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (2014) 40 copies

The Quicken Tree (American Poets Continuum) (1995) 25 copies

Becos: Poems (1983) 23 copies

Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969-1999 (American Poets Continuum) (2000) 22 copies

Selected and collected poems (1977) 15 copies, 1 review

Poems, 1963-1988 (Pitt Poetry Series) (1989) 14 copies

Auto-necrophilia; the----poems, book 2 (1971) 13 copies

Rome in Rome (1976) 11 copies

Stigmata errata etcetera (2007) — Author — 10 copies

Outremer : poems (1989) 7 copies

Love Poems to Myself (1984) 6 copies

Lucky Darryl (1977) 6 copies

Nights of Naomi, (plus 2 songs) (1971) 6 copies

Ploughshares Winter 2016-2017 (2017) 4 copies

Downrhymes: 99 Poems of Defeat Despair and Disappointment (2013) 4 copies

PLOUGHSHARES. Volume 13 #4. 1987. (1987) 2 copies

SELECTED POEMS VOLUME ONE & TWO 2 copies

Plaza de Loco : New Poems 1995-1999 (2001) 2 copies

Homages (2001) 2 copies

The Season on Our Sleeve: Selected Short Poems (2004) 2 copies

Collected Poems 1960-2013 (2013) 2 copies

May Eagles Guard Your Grave: and other Cemetery Poems chosen from the Books of (2013) 2 copies

A Breviary : Selected Short Poems 1963-1996 1 copy

One Hundred Quartorzains 1 copy

Acting poems : a selection : actors, performers, movies, theater, TV, circus/carnival, etcet 1 copy

The Season on Our Sleeve: Short Poems 1960-2000 1 copy

For Anne and Other Poems 1 copy

Collected Political Poems 1965-1994 1 copy

New Poems from the Past Six Years 1 copy

Transversions (2009) 1 copy

Collected Political Poems 1965-2001 1 copy

All My Thoughts are the Same (Selected Short Poems) 1 copy

Selected Short Poems 1966-1996. 1 copy

Collected Sonnets (2013) 1 copy

Collected Poetry (2013) 1 copy

Mary Karr's Ass & Other Prose Conjectures (2013) 1 copy

little lays. Short Poems 1960-1999 1 copy

Complete Sonnets 1969-2009 vol. 4 1 copy

Collected Poems 1960-2012 1 copy

Similar Views : New Poems 2001 1 copy

Disappearing in Salutations new poems 2002 1 copy

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Associated Works

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 1,010 copies, 7 reviews

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 849 copies, 10 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 483 copies, 3 reviews

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 400 copies, 9 reviews

Unmuzzled Ox 13 — Contributor — 7 copies

Seventies No. 1: An Anthology of Leaping Poetry (1982) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Sixties, Number 7, Winter 1964 (1964) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Canonical name: Knott, Bill
Legal name: Knott, William Kilborn
Other names: Geraud, Saint
St. Geraud
Birthdate: 1940-02-17
Date of death: 2014-03-12
Gender: male
Education: Norwich University (MFA)
Occupations: poet
Awards and honors: Iowa Poetry Prize
Relationships: Black, Star (lover)
Short biography: Bill Knott was the author of over ten books of poetry and numerous self-published volumes. His honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Knott died on March 12, 2014.
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Carson City, Michigan, VS
Places of residence: Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, VS
Associated Place (for map): Michigan, VS

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Selected and Collected Poems by Bill Knott

These poems occasionally reach for some higher idea, some purpose, something to say, but most of them read more as if Knott threw a bunch of tongue-loving words and bodily fluids and swears at a wall and jotted them down in whichever ways they stuck. Which quite apart from not really being to my taste, is...tiresome.

Mar 27, 2022